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Executive Business Partner

Block · New York, NY, United States of America · On-site

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About Block

Backed by 500 Global.

About the role

In this role, you will operate as a strategic partner, helping shape operating rhythms, manage complex priorities, improve workflows, and create leverage across teams. You will combine exceptional administrative execution with strong business judgment, proactive problem-solving, stakeholder influence, and the ability to build scalable systems that improve executive and team effectiveness.

What they're looking for

  • Demonstrated ability to operate as a trusted strategic partner to senior leaders, with strong judgment, discretion, and ability to manage sensitive information
  • Exceptional calendar, workflow, travel, and executive operations management skills, including the ability to prioritize across competing demands and shifting business needs
  • Strong business acumen and ability to connect day-to-day executive support to broader team, product, and company priorities
  • Proven experience designing or improving operating rhythms, executive workflows, planning processes, meeting systems, documentation, or cross-functional coordination mechanisms
  • Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across functions, levels, and working styles
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to synthesize complex context, prepare executive-ready materials, and communicate with clarity and sound judgment
More about this role

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.

Most Executive Operations functions move information. ExecOps at Block is built to generate it. We sit at the intersection of every major initiative — seeing what no individual executive can see simultaneously. We don't just move information to leaders; we route what we observe back into the system: naming what's stuck, surfacing misalignment, correcting drift before it calcifies. A centralized function compounds that intelligence — patterns that span organizations, signals that surface before they become problems. This is not simply a coordination...

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Business - Shared Executive Ops

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